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End of the day its only a show,who cares what dog wins,just a day out for like minded folk,if people want to parade a worker or complete fanny licker its there choice and as said a judge can only pick what he see's in front of him-her,its in the field out hunting that counts,thats where you sort the wheat from the chaff. -
KBS,your blood can boil any way it likes and im not ramming anything down anyones throath,im entitled to my opinion same as you and everyone else and if Blaise does a write up on an open forum then he is going to be critisied same as everyone else that posts.My idea of terrier work may differ from yours but diging holes all over the place and using 2-3 terriers to get the game imo is not the best advertisment as regards terrier work.
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How you know ive a fat head,lol,all im saying is its a hell of a lot safer on the terrier if its got a collar on and saves a lot of diging holes here there and all over the shop destroying earths and using 2-3 dogs in the process.Im not knocking the way Blaise goes about his buisness,its there culture and way of doing things and its illigal to use a locator for some stupid reason in his country,but we are always on here about respect for terriers and quarry,well imo there is no respect shown for either in the ways they go about it.I have dug to terriers a good few years pre-locator but times m
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Honest answer Blaise,but i will stick with the locator,thats too much diging for an auld lad like me.I do remember pre-locator days,lying on wet ground listening for the terrier or even the slightest bump driving the bar down here,there and everywhere to try and find a mark,back then we had no choice,but now we have so i will not enter a terrier without collar on,terrier still has to find and work its game and it can be a lot deeper now,also the men have to still dig to the dog locator or not,it just makes it safer. Sounds like when Badger digging was legal in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
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Had 2 mallard on a small pool this morn,goin to a bigger place that we hsave been feeding for a few weeks now so the evening flight should be good.
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Young dog done really well,fair dues to him,shows he has the nose and brains to find them when they move as some will get dug in very quickly.
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There was never anything wrong with a couple of sociable pints after a days diging and terriers were always treated almost directly after they'ed been dug.We always carried fresh water,iodine and whatever else we could get our hands on back then and as said if a terrier is dug 1st thing in the morn and then another is entered in a different place is the 1st dog brought home to be cleaned up and treated,is he f**k.Funny that about releasing the fox in the pup,a locsal here whome Neil mentioned earlier was barred out of his local so on a sunday just after opening time and mass when the pup was f
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good days indeed mate ,another one I can mind was being put in the back of an old escort van with all manor of digging stuff and I garrantee I fight between the dogs would brake out with my father shouting " brake them up " lol me trying not to look scared . Nah you're right them days are gone you'd be lock up nowadays . LOL, been there, done that. If it wasn't two having a go at each other it was a dog puking. Then it was all windows open, and it might be a pissy day in December, LOL.If a lot of drink was consumed the night before and a dog puked tripe everywhere then it was pull over of th
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did you ever get spot over any bitches? I like the Russell's myself He served just 1 bitch and the resulting pups were just moderate fox dogs,nothing special.
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That very same dog went on to serve a lot of bitchs afterwards and although i would not have wasted kennell space on him i heard a lot of lads speak of how good a dog he was but then again everyone has different standards.
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I reckon that some dogs in some lads heads and minds are legends to them,everyone has 1 special terrier that sticks in there mind for life,like that old dog in my avatar,he done it all week in week out without fuss and into old age.Many men seen him dug to and could not fault the dog and he was not fussy about what game the earth held he went about his buisness same on all quarry.He would hunt cover like a hound and would also retrieve shot game land or water.When the black dogs came around my end of the country that dog was in his prime and put many of them to shame and some that went on to m
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That old dog in my avatar [sPOT]was a hell of a dog,dug anything that could be dug with him week in week out up until he was 14-15 years of age and at that age he still showed up some dogs were supposed to be the bees knees.There were others,BESS,TOD,RIP,SOPHIE,BUTCH and others that belonged to mates of mine.I also saw a dog belonging to Smasher of here been dug to a couple of times,little bullxrussell and from what i saw and heard about the dog he was good.Neil Cooney also had a couple i can remember,PIP,POKER,PUNCH,all these dogs were well worked and worked hard,all most forgot a little lake
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The only thing they bring to the table that other more common bushing breed might lack is grit and gameness, two things I don't really see the need for in a bushing pack? Everyone trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to bushing dogs recently it seems. IMO what a wheaten would bring to the table in a pack is plenty of grief,a proper wheaten that is.
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By removing the top layer of soil of the sett they are disturbing the sett and whatever resides within same as if you put a lamp on a river after dark you can be prosecuted for disturbing fish even though you are not actually touching them.A friend of mine some years back was done for disturbing a badger sett because he bolted a fox from it,he had dead fox as evidence but they still done him and no evidence of badger in the earth.
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Lol,had to go and borrow a Con Saw once,we were doing an earth beside a silage pit and the farmer swore that it did not run towards the concrete slab,how wrong he was and how foolish we were to let the terrier in but we got a result after a bit of work with the saw and a sledge hammer.
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Feeding a pool this last couple of weeks and it it starting to show signs of a good number of mallard coming in.When we 1st fed it there was about 5-6 duck coming to it and now there is anything from 30-50 duck coming into it.The pool is situated in a flight line between 3 smallish lakes so plenty of duck about.We are using barley and wheat soaked in molasas and it seems to be doing the trick.
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Honest answer Blaise,but i will stick with the locator,thats too much diging for an auld lad like me.I do remember pre-locator days,lying on wet ground listening for the terrier or even the slightest bump driving the bar down here,there and everywhere to try and find a mark,back then we had no choice,but now we have so i will not enter a terrier without collar on,terrier still has to find and work its game and it can be a lot deeper now,also the men have to still dig to the dog locator or not,it just makes it safer.
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Locater would have saved a hell of a lot of diging also easier on the dog-dogs,can i ask did you get a result as you usually put up pics?
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Check out canine herpes. Bad cases can stop bitches taking or when pups are born die off after 3 days. Lost 5 pups this year to fading puppy syndrome,only 1 bitch survived,actually a jab you can give the bitch before she pups to prevent it but i did not know about it at the time,live and learn.
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Yeah some looney up in CO,Meath put something into the mix but i eventually bred that cur blood out and finished up with Barney the ugly b*****d.
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Barney. Ah, some great breeding in that fellow. Yeah nice bit of wheaten in him back the way,lol.
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Yeah same shore,it has held some amount of foxs down through the years and i bolted an otter from it a couple of year back.I remember the day your fathers lurcher hit the stump,i think Spud was involved in that accident.Tiny took a lot of stick that last day out o a bad fox,i remember your punch dog was in it a long time and we could not even find him,but it was only a couple of year ago that we found out that the shore heads out towards the main house,right up next to the gable infact and then heads towards the field at the front of the house,as wipeout said we were lucky to locate LUGS in it
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Barney.
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Got a call from 1 of the lads in the gun club that a local farmer had seen a fox enter 1 of his sheds and would i come with a terrier to try get it.I knew the place well as we do earths and a shore in this area every year and know the farmer PJ very well.He had a plank up against the door to stop the fox from pushing it out.I opened up the door and had a look with the other chap ready with shotgun,no sign of the fox.The shed held about 50 small hay bales + a load of scaffold planks and steel +a load of old furniture all in a very untidy manner,lol.I stuck a coller on the dog and let him in,he
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Done Eire to Derbyshire for a bitch some years back,very well bred but never made the grade with me.